Say it with flowers!

Flower photographer Andy Small shows you how to get bloomin’ great floral shots in your home, garden and wildflower fields

- Andy Small

During the past year many photographers have had to resort to finding their inspiration much closer to home. This has not been an issue for me as, for the past 30 years, I have ceaselessly explored the photographic possibilities of my garden and surrounding hedgerows here in the Hampshire countryside.

As a fine-art photographer, my underlying approach has always been to use my camera as creatively as possible, exploring ideas that echo my appreciation for other forms of art, such as painting and drawing.

Indeed, when I first started exhibiting my work in the 1990s many people couldn’t believe that they were looking at photographs. I assured them that they were, especially as this was before the days of computers and I was, at the time, just using film and chemicals.